There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Why do we love the solitude and the solitude? My dear, you need only look into your own darkness-enshrouded spirit to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“If you do not know where to go in the middle of a bridge, make the bridge as your destination and combine… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“They, whether steel kings or Bonapartes, cannot, after a certain age, endure solitude. For it is the solitude, even though strictly relative… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind. It is only when we… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical ,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Take great comfort from all great achievers in the world, past and present, their journey to greatness started in a room alone… — Kenan Hudaverdi Copy Share Image
“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude."… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“but he misses it, the running. Trapped in this house, he misses it more than ever. Misses the rhythm of it, the… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
